The patterns of things in the heavens.
Heb. ix. 23.
6. Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming
objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
7. (Founding) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made,
to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several
parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
Pattern box, chain, or cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a loom,
for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession
for forming the figure. -- Pattern card. (a) A set of samples on a
card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard
apparatus. -- Pattern reader, one who arranges textile patterns. --
Pattern wheel (Horology), a count- wheel.
Pat"tern, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patterned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Patterning.] 1. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after,
something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
Milton.
[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.
Sir T. Herbert.